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Definitely go with the linux live CD option. Basically you will need to download an ISO file and it will take some time depending on your connection speed. Then you will need to burn this to a disc: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Personally i simply open it with 7zip and copy the files to a CD and it works. But you can follow those instructions if its your first time. Once the disk is made (obviously you will need to do this on a working computer) place it in the locked laptop and reboot it. You will be asked to "press any key to boot from cd" in which case button bash Wiuth any luck you will be asked to choose a language and then an option. Choose "Try Ubuntu without making any changes" using the arrow keys and enter. It will take a few minutes to load up but when it does you can go to "Places" at the top and then "Computer" and that is sort of like "My computer" in windows. Your hard drive will be one of those options, it probably wont be "filesystem" and it wont be "Cd-rom" or dvd etc... But try them all and look for a folder called "Windows" inside one. Then you have found the hard drive. Go into "Documents and settings" and then you will be shown all the user accounts on the machine. There is no password protection or anything to explore and copy what you need. Then you will need to re-install windows or learn to crack the passwords which isnt particularly easy. What you might want to do before buying anything is try to find a recovery partition on the hard drive. Make sure you do what i said above to copy important data to a USB drive or something. Now take the CD out and reboot the computer (the shutdown button is in the top right corner of ubuntu.) Watch the screen closely as it starts up for a message like "Press F10 for recovery" or anything that mentions recovery (you dont want BIOS at the moment). If you see that message hit the key it asks for and hopefully you will be able to re-install windows without paying. But you will almost certainly loose all the data on the laptop so really make sure you have copied everything you need and verify it on another computer to make sure it's there.

That's brilliant cheers.I hate to use "Said" in any way in dialogue so i do sometimes use things like "Yes." Bob nodded on the premise that the reader understands that anything within quotes is spoken by the character and so i dont need to tell them that he said it. instead i can refer to the character so they can see that it is bob that said this, not alice or anyone else, and then add a natural type of gesture or expression to the words rather than: Bob said, nodding. But i suppose it doesnt sound too bad, but:"Yes." Bob said.Is just a true horror... Especially when you have alice and clare all talking too you just getBob saidClare saidAlice saidSaidSaidARGH!!Is it grammatically incorrect to use things like"Of course!" Bob chuckled.Or just somewhat frowned upon?I dont really expect i will ever finish this little story, i tend to write the fun parts and then get bored and it just sites there on my hard drive for eternity. I have 3 or 4 unfinished stories. So really it doesnt matter too much as it will only be me reading it (except i wont read it because i wrote it and I'll get bored, like reading a story then turning the book voer and starting again) but it's useful to know.

I think in time paper will be replaced with e-zines that you hold like an e-reader. They will be made of flexible bio-LED screens (which exist now, they are just like sheets of acetate plastic but can be used as a tv-like display) and they will rely on an etch-a-sketch type system whereby the image to be shown is sent to the screen in the form of a pattern of charges of varying strengths and polarities to represent colours and colour density. The background will be auto set to white when in use and a small chip will connect them via the mobile phone networks (or whatever replaces that network, namely 3g) which will allow them to be updated. SO you will only buy one magazine and then purchase the content for any mag you want seperately much the same way e-readers work. I do actually think that due to deforestation and such like and all the regulations that this will be the cheaper option once the screens/media themselves come down into the $50-$100 dollar range. Here in the ul a magazine subscription costs between ?30 and ?50 depending on the mag so if you could pay ?70 for the reader and then get 6 months or even a year free then it will be well worth it. A lot of mags give away gifts around the ?20-?40 RRP range anyway so it's nothing new to them.Personally, i would prefer paper based. But who knows.

This was the most suitable place i could think of posting, it's not perfect but anyway....In a story how are we supposed to write a segment of speech?Particularly concerning the grammar at the end of the speech for example:"Yes," Bob answered. "These are indeed the freshest grapes around!"."Uhhu?" Alice was sceptical. "Then why is this one brown?""Erm....It's a Spanish brown grape, I've sold the rest already!" Bob hesitantly replied.Now, i know each character's speech gets given a new line/paragraph like i have done but i am unsure of how to end the first two lines. Do i end the speech with a full stop regardless as i have done in the first line evne though the speech itself is terminated with an exclamation mark. or do i leave it as i have done with the second line?(This is just an example by the way, not a real story. That would've been very dull...)I think i need to terminate the line with a full stop regardless but microsoft word disagrees (when doesnt it... Stupid American bastardization of English.)

Well i didnt mean the multiverse theory, however It's an interesting point. I Was thinking of matter/anti matter, electrons/protons etc... For every particle created there was an opposite. Some branches of science will tell you this isnt so, that there is much more matter than anti matter. But i remain to be convinced on that.But everything has an opposite. We have yet to find white holes however that leads on nicely to the multiple universe theory in which a white hole is a new "big bang" in another universe. I dont understand the multiverse theory but i do think it is quite likely. I mentioned on here before how modern science will teach kids that electrons orbit their atomic nucleus but this isnt so.The electrons dont orbit at all they appear, then dissappear then appear somewhere else. In the case of Hydrogen (or is it helium... with one electron, i think its Hydrogen henceforth known as "H") which has just one electron you could freeze it in time and see 5 electrons, a billion. One or none. The electron can be in an infinite number of places at once or no places at one. It simply pops in and out of existence whenever it wants. This to me suggests it is either flittering between universes or that it is independent of time and is time travelling into the past, present and future or that time has absolutely no effect on it hence it can appear in many places at once. It's weird, and science cant explain it. Is it magic? YES because we cant explain it. The term magic really refers to some phenomenon with unknown origins. when science explains it then it is given a name and passed on as science. Fire for example, would have been magic when it was first seen and used. How can a stick give off light heat, change red meat to brown and make water bubble? Science the explained it and we no longer think of it as magic.

Haha, im actually a very scientific person but as a young kid i think younger than 5 (i obviously cant remember, i was too young!) i described a dead relative who died at the same age i was at the time but years and years ago, long before i was born or even thought of. He was my "imaginary" friend and when my mum was talking about it to someone (i dont know who, i presume her aunt or older relative or something) they recognised the description, and more importantly the name, as the boy who died as a toddler. Ive thought of alternate explanations, perhaps coincidence, a HUGE coincidence but it's not impossible really. From a set selection of hair/eye colours hair styles, ages and names any combination can be drawn and there is a minute chance that combination will match someone in the family who died. There is also the possibility that i saw a photo of this guy, but again, very unlikely as my mum didnt know who it was so there obviously wasnt a photo in my house or a house i frequently visited. I could of overheard a conversation about him, but again my mum would also have heard the conversation. There is much to life that we dont understand or sense. Science in time has proven phenomenon to be scientific, ball lightning for example was considered to be the devil or god, now we consider it an electrical system. The sun was considered by ancients to be their god in a chariot racing across the sky. Now we know it is a ball of plasma and gasses. In time perhaps science will prove and describe the process of spirits and ghosts and magic(k). Keep an eye on the universe and an open mind and you'll see many things you cant understand. But that doesnt mean you cant control and affect them. Remember that *everything* in the universe has an equal opposite. Perhaps the solid body does too.

Well i try to get them to install ABP but they decline so they will have to suffer!I dont mind text links and like you said, relevant ads. If I'm on T17 in the creative forum in the poetry section for example and i see an ad that advertises some sort of free online dictionary, thesaurus and other tools or even an ad for a website that promotes writing etc... then im fairly likely to click it, but if i see an ad for dog collars im just going to turn ABP back on!I also tend to avoid clicking the banners themselves and instead do a google search for the company, but that's just me being awkward because im interested in the site but i dislike the ad. Im a pain like that...

That is a pretty extreme thing to happen.I personally have some belief in the supernatural, i wont go into details as such but i do believe that various methods can "predict" the future. I dont know how it works but i see it that Tarot cards can predict the future as it stands. For example if they say I am going to die in one week and i am going on holiday by plane next week then i would believe that if i get on the plane i will die. However if i decide not to fly then i can change the future and live.But i could not kill based on that belief.

I think it's a case that my mates either dont know how or cant be bothered, theyre not big PC users!I understand the need for revenue but the adverts that get shown are truly awful. Advertising works with me, if i like the advert i will usually buy the product, consciously because the advert made me laugh. On the other hand if i dont like an advert (Virgin media...Coke Zero etc...) i will deliberately avoid the product. So perhaps if they made decent adverts i wouldnt hate them so much but to be bombarded with "YOUR COMPUTER HAS A VIRUS CLICK HERE ASAP" When im running linux im just like WTF... *click* and then get shown a "My Computer" screen with my C drive labelled with a billion malwares... yeh nice one LINUX! It's just trash! Or online poker, cars stupid perfumes advertised by the most irritating, immoral people in the world GRRR they make me mad!The only site i visit regularly is T17 to be honest, the rest are just click through to get info so the ads are well blocked there I also have an auto click through addon to get rid of the "Your download will start after this advert Click below to skip." AUTO-SKIP yay :DGood times.Come to think of it i expect people with ad revenue sites hate me

Im interested now as i see a lot of my mates dont use ad blocking software and i just dont understand it!The last time i had an annoying pop-up was well over a week ago and i dont see any flash ads, the last animated ad i saw was weeks and weeks ago and it was a GIF image which was promptly blocked :)So, if you *dont* use ad blocking software then why not?

Quoted from http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/easy-burning/standard/overview.html So you should be ok. Double check the system requirements for the roxio version in your country and language at http://www.roxio.com/

I would try either go into your control panel and find the SQL database manager (here at T17 we have two tools, PHP My Admin (PMA) for adding/editting records and data and the SQL DB manager which is where we add, edit, delete users and databases, if you only have PMA then you are a bit stuck here but read on) and if you can get into the database manager you will then need to either make a new root user (it can be called anything) and give it full access to everything and set a password. OR try to reset the current ROOT password if it lets you. If you cant do that or it doesnt work then all i can suggest is submitting a support ticket to your host and hopefully they have greater access rights and can reset your PMA details. Either way always make a backup of your data before setting out. There may be other methods but i dont know of them. PS. What do you mean by changing it to "hidden" do you mean the password is the word "hidden" or the password is not visible? Because unless you typed a new password in then it hasnt changed. It could still be blank. If you mean you type in the word "hidden" as your password then try all different spellings you might have accidentally typed, try it with caps lock on as well and see if that helps.

I dont think you can do this with PHP as it cant send a "print" command to the browser (not a paper printer anyway, print(""); just sends text to the browser, it will not print anything) But searching the net i found: Basically he defines the object to be printed as a variable "x" he then assigns a value to this variable which is the content contained within the object "doodad". Doodad is the "embed" object which is a PDF file, hence "x" now means the PDF file. He then uses x.print() to print the contents. I dont know if his codes works, or how good it is. Im not a JS guru. But try it and see.

The US government (and to an extent the UK, which is where i live) ARE terrorists. There is no doubt about this. They are just as bad as the people they are fighting. YOU, an American citizen (i think) fall into the statement i have quoted above. You think *you* are the good guys, and they are bad. This is propaganda. Osama Bin Laden was armed by the US government, way back before 9/11, years and years earlier the US government sold him all his weapons and possibly even trained him and his merry men. Fact. I Expect the US government also supplied Saddam with means of control and weaponry. Strange how after the UK and US "secured" the countries of Afghanistan/Iraq they then welcomed oil companies to bid. But then that's just me being silly, as if the UK and US governments would lie and steal *laughs* silly, silly me... LIES! The war in Iraq/Afghanistan was due to two things. Humiliation and MONEY! The US were humiliated that the people they once supported, sold guns to, trained and advised could strike at their heart. ASHAMED that their security was weak, just like pearl harbour. They had to do something to save face. This is a fact and is being revealed in the Iraq enquiry in the UK right now. Sure, bad people are being killed, but tally up the number of innocents murdered by our troops (now, before you bash me over this i dont blame the troops for the war they are engaged in, as individuals i support them. However i do not support the war. Many of those soldiers dont either but they have no choice. It is barbaric) Dont give me all this crap about us being the good guys, we arent. The UK has no place in this war and i cant condemn what the enemy are doing abroad. I do however strongly condemn the war on innocents in any country. They should focus their efforts on fighting the troops and not killing innocents. At the end of the day think of the terrible things America has done to the world (and other countries but lets focus on the US) there are many countries that have full right to march into america and try to take over, and if enemy troops arrivbed in your garden you'd blow them up with improvised bombs, throw stuff at them, use any gun you could find, crossbows anything. And that is what they are doing in Iraq/Afghanistan. I cant agree with either side in the war. I dont associate myself with either army and i do not feel represented by them. This isnt my war, but I will not have people blindly following lies believing they are doing the right thing. Saddam had no WMDs, they probably only hung him to keep him quiet. Oh, and concentration camps from the World Wars? a UK/US invention. NOT a nazi idea. They just took the idea away from us. We arent the angels in the world. We are just another demon.

So all I have to do is download a potentially dangerous, and definitely irritating, buggy toolbar from an unkown website and i can earn 5 of *their* dollars a day? Oh goody....Or i could carry on with my job and earn that same sum of money in about 45 minutes... I think ill stay here :)Moral of the story: dont trust companies that say they will give you stuff for nothing. They make money from you, in the same way you only have a job because a) the organisation needs you as a vital team member, or they make money from you. Simple as. And toolbars have a HUGE history of being full of spyware and definitely adware (Which i suspect this one contains) and every toolbar ever made makes your browser, and sometimes your entire PC so, so, so much slower, laggier and buggier than it was before you installed it. just get a job!!!

Flex is also a nice language for forms. Based loosely on XML and Flash you can basically write a flash based form (needs the flash plugin) with instant updates for notifications etc.... Plus it is pretty secure since it's code cant be viewed, all the user sees is a flash app (i think....) Not as universal as Javascript though. Ajax is definitely something to look into if you are going to be developing a lot of interactive websites with forms and user interaction.

People panic far, far too early.... Nice to see you around though Opaque, hope life is keeping you busy

It sounds as if you dont have word on the vista machine? If you do have word on both machines check the version, and check the file extension. The XP machine, unless it is running office 2007 (latest version) will save the documents as .doc If the vista machine came with office it is likely 2007 in which case it will save in .docx format. Office 2007 can open .doc but office < 2003 cant open .docxBut that doesnt explain the issue. I would imagine you dont have microsoft office on the vista machine so download OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) on the Vista machine and install. That will open, edit and save microsoft office documents, as well as being free, open source and better (speed, stability, features) than microsoft office. If you do have Office on the vista machine then you will need to associate it with the .doc format which it should already do. Right click on the file to be opened, go to "open with" and look for microsoft office. If you find word/office single click it to select it, then tick the "always use this program to open...." tick box and click OK/Open If you know you have office installed but it's not in that list click the browse button, go to "program files" then find the ms office folder, then find the exe: WINWORD.EXE (could just be WORD.EXE) and double click that. Then click the tick box and open/ok.Does any of that solve your problem?

Just to clear it up, Buffalo means javascript, not java applets. Javascript+php are, as he quite rightly said, called AJAX and are very useful. I dont know if Java (apps) and PHP can work together. I would suggest using both. If you have a form that requires an email address then you can use JS to make sure it is in the format xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx and use PHP to do the exact same thing. This way if a user types in something wrong, then clicks the next textbox JS can grey out the "submit" button so it doesnt work, and give them an error, which is faster and better than submitting the form and then getting an error message. If someone wants to disable your JS script then they just harm themselves because PHP will check the exact same thing and *then* give them the exact same error with all the hassle of waiting for a new page to load only to be told to try again. So to a normal user it is more useful and faster and to a malicious one it is just annoying

Either way you need to validate using PHP. I can easily disable any javascript validation just by changing a setting in my browser to turn javascript off, bypassing validation completely. So you definitely need to validate in PHP. The advantages of Javascript validation are two fold:Firstly if you had 1000 people using the form at the same time, and each one put some wrong data (let's say they didnt put an email address in) then that means that your form gets sent to the server 1000 times. Not that good! it means that your server needs to do 1000 sets of work only to tell the user to enter an email address and try again. If, however, you used javascript then the data doesnt get sent to the server at all, all the validation happens in their browser on their machine. So if 1000 of them put in a wrong email address but 5 put it all in correctly then the 1000 who did it wrong get a message that its wrong and your server doesnt need to do a thing, all it has to do is deal with the 5 people that got it right.So the bottom line is that Javascript can lighten the load for your server as the data only gets sent if it is valid. In a login script this is only useful to detect if they left a field blank, you cant use javascript to check if a username/password is correct, that is very insecure. (unless you use PHP to do the checking and JS to return the result. but still its not best) The second advantage is for the user. How annoying is it to fill in a form and hit submit and then wait a few seconds before the page says you did it wrong? On the other hand how much better is it that as you type if you miss something out a little bit of red text appears saying "You need to fill this in" so, so, so much easier, more professional and quicker. You can do this with javascript.Think of when you sign up to a website and the page automatically says it is free or taken with red/green text before you even click the submit button. That is javascript, usually known as AJAX which is basically Javascript talking to a PHP page and asking if that username is already in the database. the PHP simply replies yes or no and you get your message about success or failure. Very smooth and efficient!

I just typed a huge reply but figured you wouldnt read it, it was damn long :)So the answers are thus:An ip address is given to the network card. IF you have one network card in your PC you get on address, if you have a hundred then each one gets its own unique IP, so you get 100 addresses. Which IP it gets is determined on the network. WIthout going into details a network is like a telephone number. It has a dialling or area code and then extra numbers. (around my area they start with 01708 then XXX XXX numbers) So if i have two networks on different subnets (dialling codes) and have a pc with two cards and connect one card to the first network and one to the second, different network, then the IP addresses will be very different. BUt if they are connected to the same network (perhaps i want twice as much bandwidth or speed) then they will be very similar, perhaps only the last number is different. So it is based on both the network card and the network. Usually the network card asks for an address and the network (a router/switch) is responsible for giving it one. Until the network gives it an address it doesnt actually have one.If you use the internet through a cable from your ISP and then through your phone as well you will have two completely different IPs, both will refer to your single computer however. This is because the IP is given to the network card, not the computer. And your mobile is acting as a network card hence it gets is own, unique, IP. So you have two different IPs.Can someone detect that you have two cards?Well that depends.... In your example with the internet connection and the mobile connection then probably not. However, if say you connected both connections to one network (EG if you had a router and put two cables from it into two cards on your PC) then possibly... Im not sure exactly how but possibly.Think of IP addresses like phone numbers, i expect it could be done. IPs arent mysterious they are controlled by strict rules, try a wikipedia search for "Internet Protocol"

DO you have facts figures and numbers for this? Even just a link i could follow? I highly doubt this is actual fact and is more of a rumour, but if you can prove it then I'll believe it. The fact still remains, the virus is more dangerous than the vaccine.

I cant remember exactly how i done mine... I didnt think i used JS but perhaps i did... heres a JS/CSS solution but im sure it can be done with pure CSS...Think of the file menu in your browser. That button is one div/linkThe menu that appears under it (eg, new, open etc...) is another div that is set to hidden using CSS and a class "noshow". When you click on the word "file" or even mouseover use the "onlick" JS event to change the class of the menu div to "show"Take a look at my site apex-photographs.com I use a drop down type menu on the bottom of the page, in white text. I cant access my site here at work because our dns, i think, but you are free to view my code. I think my css should be apex-photographs.com/main.css See if that helps.Sorry im vague but i cant access my site to show you the code myself!

Well for car batteries and some other smaller (AA size) recharables you can zap them with a high dose of electricity to sort of break through the crystals and dissolve them. This might only apply to lead/acid type batteries. The theory is that when the battery is empty there are small crystals in the liquid inside, the electricity destroys these crystals as it charges, but if you constantly recharge at say 20% charge then 20% of the battery solution doesnt get a full cycle of charging/discharging so these crystals just get bigger and bigger to a point where the normal charging voltage cant destroy them, hence they need to be zapped by a much bigger charge to destroy them.but wait, i do NOT suggest you try this with a laptop battery, it could result in explosion or fire. Neither of which is particularly good. so first contact Sony support, they have had issues with dodgy batteries in the past and if your laptop is fairly new (say 2 years) they may just replace it for you. Another option is of course a software issue, so try downloading a free laptop power/battery monitor from download.com and see if that reports the stopping at 80% or if it says you are going to 100%. If it says 100% then download a second, different software to do the same job just to confirm it.

It may be that the battery has been damaged by not being charged fully. I dont know if it applies to laptop batteries but when a battery isnt charged fully it forms crystals in the solution of the battery which decrease its total capacity, hence you need to fully charge most batteries every now and then, and fully discharge them to clear the crystals. Contact Sony support and ask them, it may be the battery is faulty.